The Economic-Environmental Impacts of China’s Action Plan for Soil Pollution Control

Li, Zhitao; Wang, Xiahui; Li, Jia; Zhang, Wei; Liu, Ruiping; Song, Zhixiao; Huang, Guoxin; Meng, Linglong

doi:10.3390/su11082322

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“…Similarly, there has also been a marked acceleration in the number of national plans and initiatives around the world. For instance, China released in 2016 the national action plan for prevention and control of soil pollution aiming to improve soil quality (Li et al, 2019). By 2021 in the United States, 20 states formalized soil health initiatives through resolutions and laws by 2021 (Gelardi et al, 2023).…”

Section: Global Trendsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Forty years of soil research funded by the European Commission: Trends and future. A systematic review of research projects

Arias‐Navarro,

Panagos,

Jones

et al. 2023

European J Soil Science

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The European Green Deal with its high ambition has set the European Union (EU) on a promising path towards greater soil protection. The EU Soil Strategy 2030, the Biodiversity Strategy 2030, the Farm to Fork Strategy, the Zero Pollution, the Nature Restoration Law and the European Climate Law, among others, include actions to protect our soils. Research and Innovation (R&I) will play a key role in developing new knowledge and tools enabling the transition to healthy soils. The main aim of this paper is to analyse past and near‐future trends in EU's funding for R&I on soil‐related issues. For this purpose, a review of EU‐funded soil projects was conducted based on the data available in the Community Research and Development Information Service and the official portal for European data. Our analysis shows that over the past 40 years, the EU has invested significantly in developing integrated knowledge about the relationships between soil functions and ecosystem services and how human‐induced pressures affect soil health. Following the adoption of the EU Soil Thematic Strategy in 2006, there was an increase in research funding for soil‐related research. Furthermore, our analysis also illustrates an interesting interplay of permanent and changing soil themes. The Horizon Europe Mission ‘A Soil Deal for Europe’, which aims to establish a network of 100 living labs and lighthouses to lead the transition towards healthy soils and safeguard human and planetary health by 2030, provides a further incentive for soil research. Together with the EU Soil Strategy 2030 and the new proposal for a Directive on Soil Monitoring and Resilience (Soil Monitoring Law), and the EU Soil Observatory (EUSO), the three instruments set up the political framework, concrete measures, and a monitoring system needed for the protection, restoration and sustainable use of soils.

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Section: Global Trendsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Forty years of soil research funded by the European Commission: Trends and future. A systematic review of research projects

Arias‐Navarro,

Panagos,

Jones

et al. 2023

European J Soil Science

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“…At present, the Soil Plan has begun to show results (Li et al, 2019) [24]. The Ecological Environment Bulletin 2020 shows that China's soil pollution prevention and control efforts have achieved substantial results.…”

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Increasing Quantity or Improving Quality: Can Soil Pollution Control Promote Green Innovation in China’s Industrial and Mining Enterprises?

Zhu

Zhou

2022

Sustainability

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This paper uses the provisions of the Soil Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan for industrial and mining enterprises as a quasi-natural experiment and constructs a difference-in-differences (DID) model to study its effect on increasing the quantity and improving the quality of green innovation based on a panel of 453 industrial and mining enterprises in Shanghai and Shenzhen A-shares in China from 2011 to 2020. The results show that the Soil Plan can significantly promote the increase of green innovation and the quality of industrial and mining enterprises, and the results are still valid after a series of robustness tests. The mechanism test shows that the Soil Plan promotes the quality of green innovation by alleviating the financing constraints of industrial and mining enterprises, but the impact on their incremental quantity is not significant. The heterogeneity analysis shows that the effect of the Soil Plan on the quality of green innovation is stronger in the sample with a more independent board of directors and a digital mine transformation. This paper enriches the results in the field of soil pollution prevention and industrial and mining enterprises, and has important implications for the practice of promoting green innovation in Chinese enterprises.

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Vaporization of Vanadium Pentoxide from CaO-SiO2-VOx Slags During Alumina Dissolution

Shyrokykh

Wei

Seetharaman

et al. 2021

Metall Mater Trans B

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The vaporization of vanadium pentoxide from CaO-SiO2-VOx ternary slags using different gas treatment regimens and parallel vacuum gas extirpation to treat V-bearing slags at 1873 K has been developed in the present study. The novelty of the present study is to monitor the effect of parallel alumina dissolution on the vaporization phenomenon. Vanadium pentoxide has high vapor pressure at the temperatures over 1500 K. When CaO-SiO2-VOx ternary slags, kept in dense alumina crucibles, are injected with oxygen, V2O5 gas bubbles are formed which are forced out by using vacuum extirpation. The vanadium pentoxide could be then collected in the exhaust gases. The mechanism of the process phenomenon is described as the formation of V2O5 gas phase resulting from the oxidation of the lower-valent oxides present in the slag. This gas phase would form microbubbles in the molten slag bulk phase due to low surface tension between the gas phase and the slag, thereby increasing the contact surface. At the same time, the crucible material would dissolve in the slag causing an increase in the slag viscosity. Due to the high slag viscosity of the bulk slag, these microbubbles formed would have difficulty in coalescing and reaching the slag surface. The escaping of the bubbles into the gas phase is enabled by the vacuum extirpation.

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The Economic-Environmental Impacts of China’s Action Plan for Soil Pollution Control

Cited by 10 publications

References 26 publications

Forty years of soil research funded by the European Commission: Trends and future. A systematic review of research projects

Forty years of soil research funded by the European Commission: Trends and future. A systematic review of research projects

Increasing Quantity or Improving Quality: Can Soil Pollution Control Promote Green Innovation in China’s Industrial and Mining Enterprises?

Vaporization of Vanadium Pentoxide from CaO-SiO2-VOx Slags During Alumina Dissolution

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